Alex Pasternack

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Can't We All Just Get Along?
In his new tour of the world by folding bicycle, Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne acknowledges that few cities have blazed a bicycle path quite like his hometown of New York. At a Barnes and Noble event last night, someone asked

Even after President Obama's firm acknowledgment of American responsibility for climate change and Chinese President Hu's announcement of a carbon intensity target yesterday, the prospects for a deal on carbon emissions at Copenhagen in seventy days

With the world watching, China's president Hu Jintao offered his country's biggest climate change initiative yet at the UN this morning, saying China would establish emissions intensity targets --not absolute targets, but cuts in emissions per unit of

Chinese and American companies are eager to find ways to cooperate and work with each others' country, provided their governments support them, Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, said at a Climate Week NY°C panel discussion on China-US energy issues

Photos: Iwan Baan
If You Think It's Shocking on the Outside...
Thom Mayne isn't known for easy or gentle buildings, and his new Cooper Union academic building is no exception. It's a determined smack in New York's architectural face. But the city is in

China is the world's leading CO2 polluter but it often relies on per capita emissions data to show that its footprint -- and thus its responsibility to manage climate change -- is much lighter than that of developed countries.

Ahead of possible agreements between the U.S. and China at Copenhagen, official partnerships have been challenged by trade tensions and acrimony, with both countries floating protectionist threats, and China, like India, demanding that the U.S. pony up

Something worth checking out this holiday weekend if you're in New York: Chinese artist Song Dong's "Waste Not," an installation at the Museum of Modern Art made up of most of the objects obsessively collected by the artist's

Photo: Ryan Pyle / New York Times
Cheap Chinese Photovoltaics Are Hurting China Too
The sinking price of solar panels may be good for consumers looking for good solar deals, like this guy profiled by the Times who paid a cut-rate $77,000 to cover his

This week Coca Cola and Pepsi -- two of the biggest multinational companies in China, and self-professed leaders in corporate social responsibility -- found themselves teamed up: on a list of the top 12 factories causing water

Tashkent
Leading architects and artists from Uzbekistan took part in creating the stations of the capital's metro, which remains the only subway in Central Asia. The seventh metro to be built in the USSR, the Tashkent metro is typical of Soviet subway sys

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Move Over High Line
Singapore's Telok Blangah Hill Park is a dreamscape for city-bound nature lovers. A sleek fly-over infrastructure of bridges and platforms elevates visitors above the forest floor to give them a "monkey perspective,"

LOT-EK, YoungWoo Chosen For Lively Pier Renewal Plan
Not far from the High Line, another decaying piece of New York infrastructure is bound for a green revival: Pier 57, the decaying concrete hulk on New York's Hudson's River will be transformed into a